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The prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological challenges in projecting the lives of an aging cohort

Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - 2012

-course information. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of …

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Local day-care quality and maternal employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment …

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

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Determinants and Consequences of Health Behaviour: New Evidence from German Micro Data

Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - 2009

The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the importance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

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The effect of maternal education on offspring's mental health

Graeber, Daniel; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2019

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a …

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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The effect of schooling on parental integration: Evidence from Germany

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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Does it pay to be a woman? Labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R. - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that age 8-12 is a critical period for male germ cell development. We build on this...

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